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1540 The Society of Jesus, a religious order under Ignatius Loyola, is approved by the Pope.
1669 The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea falls to the Ottoman Turks after a 21-year siege.
1791 Jews in France are granted French citizenship.
1864 Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Missouri. The event becomes known as the Centralia Massacre.
1869 Wild Bill Hickok, sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shoots down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken teamster causing trouble.
1916 Constance of Greece declares war on Bulgaria.
1918 President Woodrow Wilson opens his fourth Liberty Loan campaign to support men and machines for World War I.
1920 Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
1939 Germany occupies Warsaw as Poland falls to Germany and the Soviet Union.
1942 Australian forces defeat the Japanese on New Guinea in the South Pacific.
1944 Thousands of British troops are killed as German forces rebuff their massive effort to capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in Holland.
1950 U.S. Army and Marine troops liberate Seoul, South Korea.
1956 The U.S. Air Force Bell X-2, the world's fastest and highest-flying plane, crashes, killing the test pilot.
1964 The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, issues its report, stating its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.

Born on September 27
1722 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary patriot and statesman, helped to organize the Boston Tea Party.
1840 Alfred T. Mahan, navy admiral who wrote The Influence of Seapower on History and other books that encouraged world leaders to build larger navies.
1840 Thomas Nast, caricaturist, creator of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
1862 Louis Botha, commander-in-chief of the Boar Army against the British and first president of South Africa.
1898 Vincent Youmans, songwriter best known for musical scores such as No, No Nanette and Flying Down to Rio.
1917 Louis Auchincloss, novelist (Portait in Brownstone, The Embezzler).
1924 Bud Powell, jazz pianist.
1927 Red Rodney, trumpeter.
1945 Stephanie Pogue, artist and art professor.

1835 - Mexican military commander of Texas Domingo de Ugartechea dispatched Francisco de Castañeda and 100 dragoons to retrieve a cannon at Gonzalez. This led to the Battle of Gonzalez on October 2 which is considered the opening battle of the Texas Revolution.

1846 - A Mexican justice of the peace in New Mexico arrested James Wiley Magoffin and four others as spies.

1948 - The first television station in Texas, WBAP-TV in Fort Worth, began operations. The first airing was a speech by President Harry Truman.

1993 - Texas U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson was indicted on charges that she misused state facilities and employees while she was the Texas state treasurer. The charges were later dropped.

It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi